You can have a very intense relationship with fictional characters because they are in your own head.

“Then she was kissing him as she had never kissed him before...and it was blissf…”

“Your Great-Aunt Muriel doesn't agree, I just met her upstairs while she was giv…”

“Well, you split your soul, you see, and hide part of it in an object outside th…”

“I can't give a Professor love!”